The ShortList – this week’s highlights

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This is the LabourList ShortList, bringing you a weekly summary of the best content on the site over the last week and keeping you up to date with some of the current thinking in the Labour movement:

PPC Profile: Kevin Bonavia
The PPC for Rochmond and Southend East on why he got into politics and his hopes for the manifesto.

Labour and the Co-op:
Andrew Pakes tells us how you, like him, can be a parliamentary candidate.

Chuka in support of Labour primaries:
Chuka Umunna, the PPC for Streatham, says primaries are not for factions, but to break the “hackocracy” of the current process.

Why I’m not impressed with Hannan’s plan:
Dr Amanjit Jhund reads the Hannan book and gives us his thoughts.

1 planet, 100 days:
Ed Miliband, Secretary of State for Climate Change, launches Ed’s Pledge ahead of December’s Copenhagen summit.

QE or not QE…?
Economist Chris Cook looks at the advantages and disadvantages of “printing money” in a recession.

The response is paying off:
PPC Julian Ware Lane says the car scrappage scheme has had the right results, and prove Labour’s economic policy is working.

It’s time to end Labour’s dynasties:
Paul Richards says the Labour tradition of keeping it in the family is counter to our core values.

Left, right or just right?
Alex Smith responds to a New Statesman article about the BBC’s politics.

Downloading disaster:
Loyalist MP Tom Watson says the government’s plan to clamp down on filesharing is a mistake – we need to find a solution that accepts the change in contemporary culture.

The H-Factor:
The country has a housing crisis – but AnnaJoy David says we can fix it by building for the next generation.

Don’t cut the surplus housing allowance:
Alex Smith says cutting the new housing benefit now, as planned, would hit the worst of the hardest.

Lockerbie: full marks to Mr MacAskill:
Brian Barder says the decision to release al-Megrahi was right.

Private school unfairness:
Research by Tom Ogg shows there is still injustice in the Oxford admissions system.

Taking women’s rights seriously:
The PM wrote a powerful piece for the Huffington Post this week on how we might overcome oppression around the world.

Keep him exactly where he is:
Daniel Hannan is a liability to Cameron’s Conservatives. Alex Smith says Labour mustn’t campaign for this “weapon’s” removal.

Ignorant and irresponsible:
Anthony Painter tells the real tale of hardhip of the American urban poor, and says that Chris Grayling’s trivialisation of our own problems are unfair and wrong.

See Blair talk about Faith:
Sign up here to attend Tony Blair’s series of seminars and lectures in the autumn.

A good and decent man:
The words that will echo as a fitting tribute to Teddy Kennedy.

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